The coronavirus pandemic has hit at least one in every six of America’s nursing homes — with more than 5,000 residents dying in facilities…
The coronavirus pandemic has hit at least one in every six of America’s nursing homes — with more than 5,000 residents dying in facilities in New York and New Jersey alone, according to an alarming report.
The number of cases in nursing homes doubled in the past week, with a startling 80 percent of the Garden State’s facilities now reporting cases, according to a database compiled by the Washington Post.
Nationwide, more than 2,700 Medicare-certified facilities had reported cases as of Tuesday, the paper said — noting that the elderly are most at risk from the deadly pandemic.
